2.00pm-5.00pm

Bloomsbury Reading Group Day

We are pleased to again feature a day for members of reading groups, in association with Bloomsbury Publishing. The afternoon will begin at 2pm with a glass of Pimms in Hoveringham Village Hall for a general introduction followed by group discussions. All groups will meet up for a delicious afternoon tea with the authors at 3.30, followed by a Q & A panel with the authors to round off the day.

Tickets for this event include one of the three books and afternoon tea. The other two books will also be available with a 15% discount to all participants.

Advance purchase (and reading of your chosen book!) recommended.

Louise Levene - A Vision of Loveliness. Louise is the ballet critic of the
Sunday Telegraph and appears on Radio 4's Newstand. This book, however,
is a comic novel set in the 1960s where Jane James lives with her aunt in
Newbury but dreams of Mayfair. Meantime she perfects her killer smile and
works out precisely how much thigh to show when crossing her legs. Of
course her dreams come true allowing her to enter the West End world of
part-time modelling and full-time man-trapping.

Jane Rusbridge originally wrote The Devil's Music as a short story, winning
the Bridport Prize before turning it into a novel. It is a haunting, lyrical
family saga which starts in 1958 with the birth of a child whose father
decides she is “not all there” as the family becomes less and less functional.
Three decades on, Andy, the child's brother whose own life unravelled,
returns to the family seaside retreat to try to weave together the broken
strands of his past.

Barbara Trapido will be well known to members of reading groups. Her
new novel, Sex & Stravinsky, blends the stories of people from various pasts
and parts of the world into a masquerade of a tale as the characters meet
up at the house of Jack, once the child of a backyard housemaid in Africa.
But who is he really?